[Jdanz]

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" check some polls on support of the war/president by manhattanites. it seems many who lost the most dont agree."

Limon,

There are many honorable people who oppose the President and/or the war, and support the troops.

Again, please appreciate your current safety and freedom. It didn't happen by accident.

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I think I have to question the relevance of this.

If I am thankful of those who fought justly in the past must I of necessity be supportive of those who I think do evil?

I'm going to keep my personal opinions out of this, but it seems emminently reasonable to think that what US soldiers in Iraq are doing is simply wrong and evil, and in no way is benificial to my freedom.

I think it also reasonable to think the exact opposite, that in fact their efforts are justified and they are protecting my freedoms.

While both of these seem to be opinions that two distinct rational people could legitametely come to, if one holds the former to be true than how is he disrespecting and being ungrateful? He is simply chastising evil in the world, which has no bearing on his freedom other than to reflect negatively on himself and his nation.

Further I don't think it should be taken as a given that anything a man in the uniform of the United States is just, nor that anything the United States as a whole does is just. By simply assuming that to be true we abdicate our responsiblity as moral agents, I think it is this weak acquiesence to percieved evil that so angers Limon. It is not necessarily a claim to absolute rightness but an attack against those who would lend passive legitamacy to actions they themselves felt were immoral.